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24-517: The Takku Wallu Sénégal Grand Coalition was founded on 25 September 2024 on the eve of the snap parliamentary election . About 125 political parties and movements took part in the creation of the coalition. Takku Wallu Sénégal became part of a broad anti- PASTEF "inter-coalition", along with two other colaitions: Sàmm Sa Kàddu led by Barthélémy Dias and Jàmm ak Njariñ led by Amadou Ba . The coalitions joined forces in almost all of Senegal's departments, forming joint lists. On 30 September 2024, it

48-670: A "legitimate right to respond", but later retracted his statement and urged calm in a speech later that day. Polling began at 08:00 and ended at 18:00. According to provisional results, PASTEF won in a large majority of polling stations, and were the most-voted for party in 40 of the 46 departments and seven of the eight diaspora constituencies. Following the announcement of the results, Amadou Ba and Barthélémy Dias  [ fr ] , who led separate opposition coalitions, conceded defeat. Takku Wallu Sénégal leader and former president Macky Sall accused PASTEF of organising "massive fraud", but later conceded defeat. On 22 November

72-422: A category of apportionment rules , i.e. algorithms for allocating seats in a legislative body among multiple groups (e.g. parties or federal states ). The quota methods begin by calculating an entitlement (basic number of seats) for each party, by dividing their vote totals by an electoral quota (a fixed number of votes needed to win a seat, as a unit). Then, leftover seats, if any are allocated by rounding up

96-645: A decisive victory for Faye's party PASTEF , which won an absolute majority in the National Assembly with 130 of the 165 seats. The main opposition coalition, Takku Wallu Sénégal , managed to secure 16 seats, while Jàmm ak Njariñ took 7 seats. On 12 September 2024, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the National Assembly and ordered snap elections for the chamber on 17 November. Faye, who took office on 2 April, and his prime minister, Ousmane Sonko , had previously been in conflict with

120-422: A district. The following example allocates 10 seats using the largest-remainder method by Droop quota. It is easy for a voter to understand how the largest remainder method allocates seats. Moreover, the largest remainder method satisfies the quota rule (each party's seats are equal to its ideal share of seats, either rounded up or rounded down) and was designed to satisfy that criterion. However, this comes at

144-447: A nationwide constituency by proportional representation, with seats allocated initially using the simple quotient, with remaining seats allocated using the largest remainder method . Below is a list of the main parties and coalitions fielding lists in the election. An "inter-coalition" was formed in some departments between Takku Wallu Sénégal , Sàmm Sa Kàddu and Jàmm ak Njariñ . Several incidents of violence were reported during

168-656: A prospective approach, the new driving force towards the saving path". 2024 Senegalese parliamentary election Snap parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 17 November 2024 following the early dissolution of the National Assembly by president Bassirou Diomaye Faye . The decision to dissolve the Assembly came during a politically tense period, with Faye seeking a stronger mandate for his administration’s policies amid growing economic challenges and increasing public demands for reform. The election resulted in

192-576: Is called Hamilton 's method , and is the third-most common apportionment rule worldwide (after Jefferson's method and Webster's method ). Despite their intuitive definition, quota methods are generally disfavored by social choice theorists as a result of apportionment paradoxes . In particular, the largest remainder methods exhibit the no-show paradox , i.e. voting for a party can cause it to lose seats. The largest remainders methods are also vulnerable to spoiler effects and can fail resource or house monotonicity , which says that increasing

216-477: Is first allocated a number of seats equal to their integer. This will generally leave some remainder seats unallocated. To apportion these seats, the parties are then ranked on the basis of their fractional remainders, and the parties with the largest remainders are each allocated one additional seat until all seats have been allocated. This gives the method its name - largest remainder. Largest remainder methods produces similar results to single transferable vote or

240-513: Is in part responsible for the extreme complexity of administering elections by quota-based rules like the single transferable vote (see counting single transferable votes ). The Alabama paradox is when an increase in the total number of seats leads to a decrease in the number of seats allocated to a certain party. In the example below, when the number of seats to be allocated is increased from 25 to 26, parties D and E end up with fewer seats, despite their entitlements increasing. With 25 seats,

264-507: Is more generous to less-popular parties and the Droop quota to more-popular parties. Specifically, the Hare quota is unbiased in the number of seats it hands out, and so is more proportional than the Droop quota (which tends to give more seats to larger parties). The Hare suffers the disproportionality that it sometimes allcates a majority of seats to a party with less than a majority of votes in

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288-533: The Droop quota . The use of a particular quota with one of the largest remainder methods is often abbreviated as "LR-[quota name]", such as "LR-Droop". The Hare (or simple) quota is defined as follows: LR-Hare is sometimes called Hamilton's method, named after Alexander Hamilton , who devised the method in 1792. The Droop quota is given by: and is applied to elections in South Africa . The Hare quota

312-458: The quota Borda system , where voters organize themselves into solid coalitions . The single transferable vote or the quota Borda system behave like the largest-remainders method when voters all behave like strict partisans (i.e. only mark preferences for candidates of one party). There are several possible choices for the electoral quota . The choice of quota affects the properties of the corresponding largest remainder method, and particularly

336-457: The seat bias . Smaller quotas allow small parties to pick up seats, while larger quotas leave behind more votes. A somewhat counterintuitive result of this is that a larger quota will always be more favorable to smaller parties. A party hoping to win multiple seats sees fewer votes captured by a single popular candidate when the quota is small. The two most common quotas are the Hare quota and

360-742: The National Commission confirmed the official results, with PASTEF winning 130 of the 165 seats. This was the largest majority obtained by a single party in a legislative election in Senegal since 1988 . Largest remainder method Condorcet methods Positional voting Cardinal voting Quota-remainder methods Approval-based committees Fractional social choice Semi-proportional representation By ballot type Pathological response Strategic voting Paradoxes of majority rule Positive results The quota or divide-and-rank methods make up

384-419: The apportionment for some parties. These rules are typically contrasted with the more popular highest averages methods (also called divisor methods). By far the most common quota method are the largest remainders or quota-shift methods , which assign any leftover seats to the "plurality" winners (the parties with the largest remainders , i.e. most leftover votes). When using the Hare quota , this rule

408-403: The coalition leaders, its goal is "to restore governance away from amateurism, but also to preserve democratic achievements". According to MP Seydou Diouf, who read out the introductory text announcing the new coalition, Takku Wallu Sénégal "wants to work for the preservation of positive achievements with the achievements of Presidents Abdoulaye Wade and Macky Sall , but also to build together in

432-572: The cost of greater inequalities in the seats-to-votes ratio , which can violate the principle of one man, one vote . However, a greater concern for social choice theorists, and the primary cause behind its abandonment in many countries, is the tendency of such rules to produce erratic or irrational behaviors called apportionment paradoxes : Such paradoxes also have the additional drawback of making it difficult or impossible to generalize procedure to more complex apportionment problems such as biproportional apportionments or partial vote linkage . This

456-720: The election. On 28 October 2024, unidentified persons attacked the headquarters of an opposition party in Dakar and started a fire. On 30 October, Sonko and Faye's party PASTEF said that Sonko's convoy was pelted with stones during a campaign sortie in Koungheul , injuring former minister Malick Gakou  [ fr ] , who is the concurrent leader of an allied party. In response, opposition MP Fanta Sall said that armed “strongmen” acting on behalf of PASTEF had attacked opposition activists. On 12 November, Sonko tweeted that attacks against PASTEF supporters would lead to them exercising

480-578: The leader of the coalition, he announced that he would be stepping down as Special Envoy for the Paris Pact for People and the Planet (4P). He was appointed to the position by French President Emmanuel Macron in November 2023. 98-year-old former President Abdoulaye Wade also announced his support for the new coalition. A few weeks before the parliamentary election, after the official publication of

504-568: The lists, the Takku Wallu Sénégal coalition filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council to exclude Prime Minister of Senegal Ousmane Sonko , the leader of PASTEF , from the election, citing his disqualification from the 2024 presidential election , thereby declaring the ruling party's list invalid. However, the appeal was rejected by the Constitutional Council, which declared it "inadmissible". According to

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528-399: The number of seats in a legislature should not cause a party to lose a seat (a situation known as an Alabama paradox ). The largest remainder method divides each party's vote total by a quota . Usually, quota is derived by dividing the number of valid votes cast, by the number of seats. The result for each party will consist of an integer part plus a fractional remainder . Each party

552-409: The opposition-controlled legislature and accused the latter of blocking his proposed reforms and budget. The 165 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 112 are elected by either first-past-the-post or party bloc vote in single- or multi-member constituencies based on the 46 departments (15 seats are elected by overseas diaspora voters). The other 53 seats are elected from

576-536: Was announced that former Senegalese President Macky Sall would become the leader of the national list of the Takku Wallu Sénégal coalition. However, since Macky Sall has not been seen in Senagal since the end of his presidential term in April 2024, it has been speculated that he will not take his seat in the upcoming National Assembly , handing it over to his deputy. Following the announcement that Macky Sall would become

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